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This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of October 2020, Justin Bieber has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a male artist, and Dua Lipa has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a female artist. Ed Sheeran has the most followers by a male artist, and Ariana Grande has the most followers by a female artist. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake a record three times (2015, 2016 and 2018).

1.Justin Bieber. 2.Dua lipa. 3.Ariana Grande. 4.Drake.

Most monthly listeners

Rank Artist Listeners per month
(millions) 		Chg Ref(s)
1 Justin Bieber 60.56 Increase [1]
2 The Weeknd 60.37 Steady [2]
3 Drake 58.02 Steady [3]
4 Dua Lipa 55.14 Steady [4]
5 Ariana Grande 54.90 Increase [5]
6 J Balvin 54.12 Steady [6]
7 Ed Sheeran 51.77 Decrease [7]
8 Cardi B 49.60 Increase [8]
9 Khalid 47.89 Decrease [9]
10 Marshmello 47.53 Decrease [10]
11 Jason Derulo 45.73 Decrease [11]
12 Shawn Mendes 45.88 Decrease [12]
13 Maroon 5 44.04 Decrease [13]
14 Travis Scott 43.64 Decrease [14]
15 Halsey 43.39 Decrease [15]
16 Lady Gaga 42.32 Decrease [16]
17 Post Malone 41.72 Decrease [17]
18 Harry Styles 41.74 Increase [18]
19 Bad Bunny 41.66 Increase [19]
As of November 2, 2020

Most followers

  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners
Rank Artist Followers[20]
(millions) 		Ref(s)
1 Ed Sheeran 71.31 [6]
2 Ariana Grande 52.01 [7]
3 Drake 50.35 [3]
4 Rihanna 39.58 [21]
5 Justin Bieber 38.86 [22]
6 Eminem 38.79 [23]
7 Billie Eilish 34.20 [1]
8 Taylor Swift 33.21 [24]
9 Imagine Dragons 30.50 [25]
10 Queen 29.80 [26]
11 Shawn Mendes 29.76 [12]
12 Post Malone 28.93 [17]
13 Coldplay 27.54 [27]
14 Maroon 5 27.50 [13]
15 Marshmello 27.44 [10]
16 Bruno Mars 27.20 [28]
17 Bad Bunny 25.85 [19]
18 The Weeknd 25.24 [29]
19 Ozuna 24.84 [30]
20 Beyoncé 24.81 [31]
21 Alan Walker 24.67 [32]
22 BTS 24.31 [33]
23 Adele 23.82 [34]
24 J Balvin 23.38 [5]
25 Selena Gomez 23.13 [35]
As of October 28, 2020

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.[36]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd[37]
October
November
December Justin Bieber

2016

Month Artist
January Justin Bieber
February
March
April Rihanna
May Drake[38]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[38]

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[38]
February Ed Sheeran[39]
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2018

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[39]
February
March Drake[40]
April
May
June J Balvin[41]
July Drake[40]
August
September
October
November Selena Gomez
December Ariana Grande[42]

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande[42]
February
March
April
May Khalid[43]
June Ed Sheeran[44]
July
August
September
October
November
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[44]
February Justin Bieber[45]
March
April The Weeknd
May Drake
June The Weeknd
July
August
September
October

Most-streamed artists

Drake was the most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2015, 2016 and 2018—the most years of any artist.

By year

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Year Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2013[46] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[47] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[48] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[49] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[50] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[51] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[52] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Decade Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2010s[53] Drake (28 billion) Ed Sheeran Post Malone Ariana Grande Eminem

All time

Rank Artist Streams Total tracks Over 1B Over 100M Over 10M Over 1M Ref
1 Drake 34,271,299,567 223 3 90 207 219 [54]
2 Ed Sheeran 26,463,581,902 204 5 49 140 174
3 Post Malone 21,556,022,281 64 8 47 57 60
4 Eminem 20,275,948,034 265 1 46 197 239
5 Ariana Grande 19,857,667,564 169 2 45 94 144
6 Justin Bieber 18,826,826,895 188 5 38 133 153
7 The Weeknd 18,522,174,613 125 4 47 112 122
8 J Balvin 18,362,937,536 196 2 48 113 178
9 Bad Bunny 17,588,398,759 119 1 51 111 118
10 Kanye West 15,131,062,109 207 0 41 158 179
As of October 29, 2020

See also

References

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